self,
        collection_name: str = _LANGCHAIN_DEFAULT_COLLECTION_NAME,
        embedding_function: Optional[Embeddings] = None,
        persist_directory: Optional[str] = None,
        client_settings: Optional[chromadb.config.Settings] = None,
    ) -> None:
        """Initialize with Chroma client."""
        try:
            import chromadb
            import chromadb.config
        except ImportError:
            raise ValueError(
                "Could not import chromadb python package. "
                "Please install it with `pip install chromadb`."
            )
        if client_settings:
            self._client_settings = client_settings
        else:
            self._client_settings = chromadb.config.Settings()
            if persist_directory is not None:
                self._client_settings = chromadb.config.Settings(
                    chroma_db_impl="duckdb+parquet", persist_directory=persist_directory
                )
        self._client = chromadb.Client(self._client_settings)
        self._embedding_function = embedding_function
        self._persist_directory = persist_directory
        self._collection = self._client.get_or_create_collection(
            name=collection_name,
            embedding_function=self._embedding_function.embed_documents
            if self._embedding_function is not None
            else None,
        )
[docs]    def add_texts(
        self,
        texts: Iterable[str],
        metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None,
        ids: Optional[List[str]] = None,
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> List[str]:
        """Run more texts through the embeddings and add to the vectorstore.
        Args:
            texts (Iterable[str]): Texts to add to the vectorstore.
            metadatas (Optional[List[dict]], optional): Optional list of metadatas.